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Richmond

Located three kilometres from the CBD in exciting and diverse Richmond, Embassy will provide an incredible array of amenities which will appeal to a broad range of people, from first home buyers to families. Embassy Richmond is being developed by Melbourne-based family development company Blue Earth Group which has a long history of building high-quality buildings with a focus on owner-occupiers. Register today using the form below to view more...

It's not often you return from an overseas trip to be greeted with a letter from City of Yarra pertaining to a Planning Application for a significant development down the street. Planners Urbis on behalf of Bamfa Properties has submitted a combined planning permit application and planning scheme amendment to pave the way forward for a significant mixed-use scheme. A 12-storey and 10-storey building with associated 3-storey podia at 462-482 Swan...

Once a stronghold for various industries, Richmond continues to evolve as a highly sought-after inner city apartment hub. While areas north and west of the Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre have seen intense levels of apartment development, the tract of land directly south of Victoria Gardens and east of Burnley Street is now set to continue the trend. Doonside Precinct has risen to prominence with a string of apartment developments poised to...

Recently Urban Melbourne was invited to inspect the display suite for Palmer St , the third and final stage of Riverside Group's Jaques development in Richmond. Located just three kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, the site was was once occupied by the renowned Jaques factory. Founded in 1885 by Edward Jaques who along with his family fled Revolutionary France, his company produced rock crushers for quarries, a specialty in which Jaques would...

The struggles of Bridge Road have been well documented both on Urban Melbourne and via many other media outlets. For so long synonymous with 'warehouse fashion' shopping, many have said Bridge Road has suffered a sustained decline due to the rise of DFO's and the substantial investment pumped into the CBD's retail offerings in recent years. Remedies such as free parking have been put forward, while others such as Fred Nucara of Beller Commercial...

If you look back at the history of Richmond Station's proposed redevelopment, it begins to sound altogether very familiar - much like the proposed deck over the Jolimont Railyards which it abuts - and altogether very average. The sustained inability of successive governments to achieve anything more than chatter about the project is a poor reflection on the State's inability to deliver on this particular project. Talk of the redevelopment has...

Urban Melbourne recently spoke with Fred Nucara, Beller Group’s Commercial Director, in order to understand the story behind the story regarding their recent release of comprehensive research into Melbourne's premier retail shopping strips. In a system similar to Urban Melbourne's citywide crane count, the Beller team actively traversed Melbourne's shopping strips in order to collate the most accurate retail snapshot possible. Over two data...

I once again delve into the Laurence Dragomir RMIT School of Architecture and Design archive today, this time focusing on a Punt Road oval rebirth from way back in 2008. Part of a design studio titled "Football, Meatpies and Holden Cars" it was run by RRR's The Architects very own Christine Phillips and centred around the redevelopment of Punt Road alongside the point where Suters Architects were developing their scheme which has since been...

Working at Tract Consultants near Bridge Road in Richmond gives me a front-row seat on the city's sad trend of high-street decline. Every day, I watch one of the city's key retail strips slowly lose tenants. Walking to get my lunch, I often pass three or four empty shops in a row - and the ones that are still open are having closing-down sales. My guess is that 30% of the shops are vacant. This decline has been going on for a while, but...

I ventured down to Bridge Road recently with the intention of wandering through the area, capturing the sights of the popular inner city strip. Passing through some neighbouring streets, I was confronted with some interesting street art. Street art in addition to the rich existing streetscape makes for a great urban environment, although Bridge Road and its surrounds - like so many areas - is under transformation with increased apartment...

Policy, Culture & Opinion

The New Urban Agenda was officially adopted in Quito, Ecuador in the last plenary of the Habitat III conference. The agenda provides a 20-year “roadmap” to guide sustainable urban development globally. The text of the New Urban Agenda itself was agreed well before Habitat III at the UN General Assembly in September, during an extraordinary informal negotiation session that lasted for more than 30 hours.

Visual Melbourne

Melbourne’s architectural landscape is a wonderful juxtaposition of modern and Victorian architecture. Although the CBD has been peppered with many skyscrapers, its historical structures have won Melbourne the title of “Australia’s most European city”.

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Transport & Design

Melbourne’s tram network may hold the key to providing the dense network of high frequency rapid transport that would provide world class connectivity in the inner-city and CBD. Melbourne and New York are very different cities. Drawing too close a parallel between any two cities can be a folly; however New York and Melbourne share some near similarities where it counts.

Sustainability & Environment

Timber mid-rise buildings are becoming the preferred choice for many stakeholders in Melbourne, due to a combination of factors, including cost-effectiveness, liveability, ease and efficiency of construction. Within the recent National Construction Code change, Deemed-To-Satisfy provisions allow mid-rise timber construction for buildings up to 25 metres “effective height” (typically, eight storeys).